Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Title

Title:Back to external pressure : policy responses to the financial crisis in Portugal
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Author(s):TORRES, Francisco S.Date:2014Citation:Susannah VERNEY, Anna BOSCO and Marina COSTA LOBO (eds), Southern Europe and the financial earthquake : coping with the first phase of the international crisis, London ; New York : Routledge, 2014, South European Society and Politics, pp. 55-70Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The financial crisis caught Portugal in the midst of its long-protracted and slow fiscal consolidation process, which brought the budget deficit down to 2.2 per cent of GDP in 2008. The crisis was not a bursting bubble ...

Title:Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education: Belarus
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Author(s):ULASIUK, IrynaDate:2012Citation:Charles GLENN and Jan DE GROOF (eds), Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education (Volume 3), Oisterwijk, Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP), 2012, 48-60Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Freedom, autonomy and accountability are commonly regarded as very important, but policy-makers do not always pay sufficient attention to the tensions among them. Thus freedom or school autonomy may be sacrificed to ...

Title:The Baltic litmus test for gas
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Author(s):PIEBALGS, AndrisDate:2017Type:OtherSeries/Number:Policy Briefs; 2017/16; Florence School of Regulation EnergyAbstract:• Much has been written and commented, in recent years, about the Baltic States and their delicate position – both geographically and politically speaking – concerning security of gas supply and energy independence from ...